Diaspora Memory And Identity

Author : Vijay Agnew
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802093745

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Diaspora, Memory and Identity by Vijay Agnew Pdf

Memories establish a connection between a collective and individual past, between origins, heritage, and history. Those who have left their places of birth to make homes elsewhere are familiar with the question, "Where do you come from?" and respond in innumerable well-rehearsed ways. Diasporas construct racialized, sexualized, gendered, and oppositional subjectivities and shape the cosmopolitan intellectual commitment of scholars. The diasporic individual often has a double consciousness, a privileged knowledge and perspective that is consonant with postmodernity and globalization. The essays in this volume reflect on the movements of people and cultures in the present day, when physical, social, and mental borders and boundaries are being challenged and sometimes successfully dismantled. The contributors - from a variety of disciplinary perspectives - discuss the diasporic experiences of ethnic and racial groups living in Canada from their perspective, including the experiences of South Asians, Iranians, West Indians, Chinese, and Eritreans. Diaspora, Memory, and Identity is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home.

Author : Vijay Agnew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802090338

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Diaspora, Memory and Identity by Vijay Agnew Pdf

Memories establish a connection between a collective and individual past, between origins, heritage, and history. Those who have left their places of birth to make homes elsewhere are familiar with the question, "Where do you come from?" and respond in innumerable well-rehearsed ways. Diasporas construct racialized, sexualized, gendered, and oppositional subjectivities and shape the cosmopolitan intellectual commitment of scholars. The diasporic individual often has a double consciousness, a privileged knowledge and perspective that is consonant with postmodernity and globalization. The essays in this volume reflect on the movements of people and cultures in the present day, when physical, social, and mental borders and boundaries are being challenged and sometimes successfully dismantled. The contributors - from a variety of disciplinary perspectives - discuss the diasporic experiences of ethnic and racial groups living in Canada from their perspective, including the experiences of South Asians, Iranians, West Indians, Chinese, and Eritreans. Diaspora, Memory, and Identity is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home.

Author : Vijay Agnew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Autobiographical memory
ISBN : OCLC:1078353281

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Author : Nadia Jones-Gailani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503161

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Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women by Nadia Jones-Gailani Pdf

In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.

Author : Bertrand Van Ruymbeke,Randy J. Sparks
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1570034842

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Memory and Identity by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke,Randy J. Sparks Pdf

"This edited volume contains ... papers that were presented at the 1997 international symposium 'Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and their Diaspora', held at the College of Charleston, South Carolina"-- Library of Congress.

Author : Joanne Chassot
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512601619

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora by Joanne Chassot Pdf

The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers - Fred D'Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers' engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.

Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748686131

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Diasporas of the Modern Middle East by Anthony Gorman Pdf

Approaching the Middle East through the lens of Diaspora Studies, the 11 detailed case studies in this volume explore the experiences of different diasporic groups in and of the region, and look at the changing conceptions and practice of diaspora in the

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401203807

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Diaspora and Memory by Anonim Pdf

Experiences of migration and dwelling-in-displacement impinge upon the lives of an ever increasing number of people worldwide, with business class comfort but more often with unrelenting violence. Since the early 1990s, the political and cultural realities of global migration have led to a growing interest in the different forms of “diasporic” existence and identities. The articles in this book do not focus on the external boundaries of diaspora – what is diasporic and what is not? – but on one of its most important internal boundaries, which is indicated by the second term in the title of this book: memory. It is not by chance that the right to remember, the responsibility to recall, are central issues of the debates in diasporic communities and their relation to their cultural and political surroundings.The relation of diaspora and memory contains important critical and maybe even subversive potentials. Memory can transcend the territorial logic of dispersal and return, and emerge as a competing source of diasporic identity. The articles in this volume explore how, shaped by the responsibilities of testimony as well as by the normalizing forces of amnesia and forgetting and political interests, memory is a performative, figurative process rather than a secure space of identity.

Author : Ruxandra Trandafoiu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459442

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Diaspora Online by Ruxandra Trandafoiu Pdf

After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, millions of Romanians emigrated in search of work and new experiences; they became engaged in an interrogation of what it meant to be Romanian in a united Europe and the globalized world. Their thoughts, feelings and hopes soon began to populate the virtual world of digital and mobile technologies. This book chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora using websites based in Europe and North America. Through online exchanges, Romanians perform new types of citizenship, articulated from the margins of the political field. The politicization of their diasporic condition is manifested through written and public protests against discriminatory work legislation, mobilization, lobbying, cultural promotion and setting up associations and political parties that are proof of the gradual institutionalization of informal communications. Online discourse analysis, supplemented by interviews with migrants, poets and politicians involved in the process of defining new diasporic identities, provide the basis of this book, which defines the new cultural and political practices of the Romanian diaspora.

Author : Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000530032

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Trafficking Hadassah by Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar Pdf

The representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural memories, histories, and materialized pain of African(a) girls and women across time and space, from the Persian Empire, to subsequent slave trade routes and beyond. Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for profit and pleasure, causing adverse physical, mental, sexual, socio-cultural, and spiritual consequences for the girls and women concerned. It focuses on sexual trafficking both in the biblical book of Esther and during the transatlantic slave trade to demonstrate how gender and racism intersect with other forms of oppression, including legal oppression, which results in the sexual trafficking of African(a) females. It examines both the conditions and mechanisms by which the trafficking of the virgin girls (who are collectively identified) are legitimated and normalized in the book of Esther, alongside contemporary histories of Africana females. This important book examines ideologies and stereotypes that are used to justify the abuse in both contexts, challenges the complicity of biblical readers and interpreters in violence against girls and women, and illustrates how attention to the nameless, faceless African girls in the text is impacted by the #MeToo and #SayHerName social movements. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the Bible, religion, gender, theology, and sex trafficking. It is also an important book for those in the related fields of Africana Studies, Trauma Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Diaspora Studies, Critical Race Studies, as well as to the general reader.

Author : Lillian Ng
Publisher : Mandarin
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 1863303790

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Silver Sister by Lillian Ng Pdf

Novel telling the experiences of a girl born into poverty in a Chinese village, who escapes during the Sino-Japanese war, bonds with three other 'sisters' and works as an amah in Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore and finally Australia. The Singapore-born Chinese author now lives in Australia.

Author : Matthew Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 0774834331

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Griffintown by Matthew Barlow Pdf

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. As Irish immigration dwindled in the early twentieth century, Irish culture in the city became diasporic, reflecting an imagined homeland. Focusing on the power of memory to shape community, Matthew Barlow finds that, despite sociopolitical pressures and a declining population, the spirit of this ethnic quarter was nurtured by the men and women who grew up there. Today, as Griffintown attracts renewed interest from artists, scholars, and tourists, this textured analysis reveals how public memory defines our urban centres.

Author : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317818205

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Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger Pdf

This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity.

Author : Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce,Andrew P. Davidson
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015073934583

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At Home in the Chinese Diaspora by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce,Andrew P. Davidson Pdf

At Home in the Chinese Diaspora explores issues of memory and how memories are deployed and negotiated to re-establish a sense of belonging. This volume breaks new ground in analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation, and remembering home through the focal point of memories. Some chapters focus conceptually on memories as social expressions, a locus of place, cultural capital, and imagination. Others explore the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories through the world of literature and cinema.

Author : Julia Creet,Andreas Kitzmann
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442620483

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Memory and Migration by Julia Creet,Andreas Kitzmann Pdf

Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical understanding across generations is examined through case studies and theoretical approaches that underscore its mutability. Memory and Migration is a truly interdisciplinary book featuring the work of leading scholars from a variety of fields across the globe. The essays are collaborative, successfully responding to the central theme and expanding upon the findings of individual authors. A groundbreaking contribution to an emerging field of study, Memory and Migration provides valuable insight into the connections between memory, place, and displacement.